Deep Exegesis is based on a belief that readers---particularly evangelical readers---need to change their reading of biblical text from a narrow literalism that tends both to flatten it and to limit the reader's ability to enter into the depths of scripture. The goal of the book is to help train readers to, as Leihart puts it, "hear all that is being said." By looking (and listening) closely, and by including passages from the Bible and from other literary sources as well, Leithart demonstrates that a full and careful attention to language is the way meaning emerges from all texts.